Friday, 21 August 2015

What long fic should I liveblog?

(NB: "You shouldn't. It's a horrible idea" is probably the best answer, but I'm going to ignore it.)

Over on Fimfiction, Soap Box is just starting a liveblog of Past Sins, and I quite like the idea of doing something similar. The idea would be to read maybe two chapters a week (dependent on chapter length) and then post my thoughts as I went along. This would take place on my Fimfiction blog rather than here, partly since Fimf's comments support is so much better than Blogger's.

Required criteria:

Not Mature-rated

Complete

Readable as a standalone fic

Not a story I've already read (see below)

Desirable criteria:

100,000 words or longer

Not a crossover

Not an Equestria Girls fic

Published on Fimfiction

I'm persuadable on the "desirable" criteria in truly exceptional cases, though I wouldn't get your hopes up too far. The "required" ones are, well, required.

Long fics I've already read, and which are therefore ineligible for consideration: Anthropology, Austraeoh, Eljunbyro, Fallout: Equestria, Flash Fog, The Games We Play, Integration, It's a Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door, The Life and Times of a Winning Pony, Mother of Invention, No, I Am Not A Brony, Get Me Outta Equestria!, Past Sins and Shipping and Handling. I'm currently reading The Luna Cypher, so that too is ineligible.

The idea here was that each of the Mane Six were leaving Ponyville for the summer and writing letters to keep in touch. Some of the stories that were created got a little out there.

It's wildly uneven, but for my part as Pinkie Pie, I tried to Pinkie Pie the living hell out of it. Some of the drama was making the story mopey, so I tried to insert some comedy relief to lighten things up. It's certainly not the best story on the site, but it was an interesting experiment.

I think I came across that in a search ages ago and then promptly forgot about it. I'm leaning towards doing a better-known fic for the liveblog -- but this one sounds interesting, so on to the RiL list it goes. :)